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Day of marriage June 19, 1915

• The temperature on June 19, 1915 was between 3.1 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
  • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Day of death March 21, 1995

• The temperature on March 21, 1995 was between -1.0 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1995: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election.
  • May 1 » Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
  • May 2 » During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
  • September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
  • October 28 » The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
  • November 13 » Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1992 » John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1992 » Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)
• 1994 » Aleksandrs Laime, Latvian-born explorer (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1997 » Wilbert Awdry, English cleric and author, created Thomas the Tank Engine (b. 1911)